Sunday, January 09, 2011

Is my apartment that, for over a year, has been a place for transformation, a waiting room for happiness. My question to resolve is how to reconstruct the endless desire to delve into the world and the rest of things - A question that the Spanish scientist and lawyer Eduardo Punset asks publicly. The artistic processes occur through extensive time of reflection and through interaction with other individuals, as intelligence does not exist if not social. Similarly, happiness ceases to exist without emotional interaction and interconnections that make up the individual as being free on one side and happy on the other. “Sala de Espera” I see as a place of artistic exploration that does not aim to generate public objects, but rather to delve deep into the primary and private processes of an artist who is invited and given his or her own key to come and go for a month in my home - creating an experience. For my part, I will live with the pieces and/or experiences of each artist and will serve as support in their completion.

Superstition and Cleanliness explores the set of actions that is the curious practice of ritual as cathartic and transformative, specifically rituals of atonement and rites of passage. The piece presents a self-prescribed ritual of penance performed by the practitioner. Entering a liminal state, the practitioner and his set of actions set to approach and investigate the promise of internal change and order through the momentary devotion and belief in the symbolic value of gestures, the adherence to a network of symbols, the consequent submission to the prescribed ritual, and the external simulation of order itself.

Superstition and cleanliness is also a personal investigation of the creative process, as the practitioner is also simultaneously playing the role of artist upon a stage where extreme emotion, ideas and beliefs are contained, organized and exorcised by means of various mediums. Much like an individual placing faith in the outcome of a ritual, the artist seeks to discover whether or not the object created or the piece performed can fulfill the purpose for which it was made.

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Judith Pedroza is an artist, writer, and organizer of independent art projects and exchanges in Mexico City, Tijuana, San Diego, and Chicago. Her subjects are dignity, emancipation, future and re-writing history. Her work had been shown in San Diego Museum of Art, Woodbury School of Architecture San Diego, La Jolla Athenaeum, ArteBA, Carillo Gil Museum Mexico City among others. She received an MA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Visual & Critical Studies 2015